DURBAN: Thulisile Ntobela, once lived in an apartment, but when her rent went up 25 percent, the unemployed mother of five could no longer afford and moved out.She found a piece of vacant land in Durban and put up a shack.That was five years ago and much cheaper than paying rent, which had gone up to 200 rand ($12.80).“That’s why we moved here, we don’t pay the rent. You just build your house and you stay,“ she said.Hers was among the 87 homes -- shacks made of corrugated iron -- that vanished in seconds when the ground, over-saturated with flood water -- crumbled at the informal settlement of eNkanini, on a hilltop residential area of central Durban.“I was so scared at that time. I was hold
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